PCA appoints Toscas president and CEO
The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has named James G Toscas president and chief executive officer, effective 15 December 2014. For the past 11 years, Toscas served as presi...
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Vicem October sales up 19% YoY
State-owned Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem) said it sold 2.09Mt of cement and clinker in October, rising 18.9 per cent from a year ago. Of the volume, 1.65Mt of ce...
Competition Commission clears Shree acquisition of Jaiprakash unit
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said it has approved a proposal of Shree Cement to acquire Jaiprakash Associates' 1.5Mta grinding unit in Haryana, saying the deal wil...
Mozambique: Cimentos da Beira awards Ambrian subsidiary purchasing contract
Ambrian PLC said Monday that its wholly-owned subsidiary Ambrian (Singapore) Pte Ltd has entered into an agency agreement with Cimentos da Beira Ltda. Under the agreement th...
Holcim names new Area Manager for Africa Middle East
Dominique Drouet, CEO of Holcim Morocco, has been appointed Area Manager for Africa Middle East and member of Senior Management of Holcim Ltd, effective 1 January 2015. He will...
Tangshan Jidong Cement Co to issue CNY1bn bills
Tangshan Jidong Cement Co, Ltd has announced that it will issue CNY1bn (US$16.3m) unsecured short-term bills with a maturity of 365 days on the interbank market on 21 November ...
Cemex: helping to build a Greater Britain
In the past 18 months, Cemex has been an integral part of some of the most important infrastructure projects in the UK with a direct impact on its residents’ quality of life, f...
Holcim: 2015 expected to be "solid year"
Holcim expects 2015 to be a “solid year” for the group as it aims to achieve substantial improvement of its results. In a statement released ahead of today's Holcim Investor ...
US nine-month shipments preliminary data
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico for the first nine months of the year reached 66.292Mt, preliminary data released by the US Geological ...
Vietnam cement sales exceed 40Mt
Vietnam cement companies sold 41.54Mt of cement in the domestic market in the first 10 months of this year, including 4.27Mt in October, the country’s Ministry of Construction ...
Spain’s monthly demand advances 5% YoY
Cement consumption in Spain increased by five per cent to 1,037,219t in October when compared with the same period last year, latest data from domestic association Oficemen sho...
Gansu Shangfeng Cement in Kyrgyzstan joint venture
Gansu Shangfeng Cement Co says its wholly-owned Zhejiang Shangfeng Building Materials unit is to set up a joint venture with ZETH International in Kyrgyzstan with registered ca...
HeidelbergCement halts production at Ukraine factory
HeidelbergCement has halted production at its 1.8Mta cement factory in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine after pro-Russian rebels in the regions wanted to impose their own agenda on the...
Fitch assigns ‘BB+(EXP)’ to Elementia proposed notes, Outlook Stable
Fitch Ratings has assigned an expected rating of 'BB+(EXP)' to Elementia, SA de CV’s proposed US$400m notes with a maturity of up to 10 years. Proceeds from the notes issuance...
Nepal: moves to facilitate production
The government of Nepal has said it will expand access roads to 11 cement plants and supply electricity to eight factories during the current fiscal to facilitate cement produc...
Siam Cement to equip new Indonesian plant with WHR technology
Siam Cement Group (SCG) has announced that its new Indonesian plant in Sukabumi, West Java, will be equipped with a waste heat power generation (WHG) system which could reduce ...
Iran exports reach 11.7Mt in first seven months
Iranian cement factories exported 11.7Mt in the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21- October 22), the country's Ministry of Industries, Mines and...
Paraguay: cement price decrease expected
Jorge Méndez, head of Paraguay’s Industria Nacional del Cemento (INC), announced a drop in cement prices for 2015-16. At present the price of a 50kg bag of cement is PYG42,00...
Bolivia: Potosi plant ruled out
Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, ruled out the building of a cement plant in Quiburi, Potosi. The new works was expected to cost US$401m, including the building of a pipeline...
Ashaka nine-month net profit up 3% YoY
Ashaka Cement Plc nine-month results for the period ended 30 September 2014 showed revenue growth of three per cent YoY to NGN17.3bn (US$100.9m) profit after tax rose 103 per c...
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